Go Back

I invite wine geeks to go back and read some of the past vintage threads. I cruised the 2013 thread and it was fun. Funny how few pics we posted back then. Also pulled at my heart strings to see some pics of my girl Peewee. God bless her.

Good idea .

Several months back I read 2011. Not fun for the folks in Napa .

Napa? We lost 40% of our Chardonnay crop let alone other huge losses!

Yeah, 2011 was awful in large parts of the Anderson Valley. A lot depended on whether you were in a bit warmer or a bit cooler area because once the rain came, it kept returning.

-Al

And a lot of the wines show it. With a few notable exceptions, I detest pretty much everything about 2011 in Northern California.

I bet if you go back to 2010 you’d see a lot of posts about nothing getting ripe. People deciding to leaf, and then ending up with half their chard sunburned a few days later.

I love going back and reading my own notes from the last two vintages. I’ve only got two under my belt, but I take pretty good notes ; )